Righteousness Quotes - Page 6

• The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Fall, Angel

  George Whitefield (2012). “The Lord Our Righteousness”, p.8, Curiosmith

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• When the Holy Spirit comes to live within you, He will come with the ability to produce righteousness. Righteousness is the nature of God, which when imparted to the human spirit, produces the rightness of God in the human spirit. It gives man right standing with God; it gives him the ability to stand in the presence of God without a sense of guilt, inferiority or condemnation. It means rightness in God. The righteousness of God is wrought in you.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Mean, Men, Giving

  Chris Oyakhilome PhD. (2014). “Seven Things The Holy Spirit Will Do For You”, p.26, LoveWorld Publishing

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• No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.

  Thomas Boston

  Grace, Deeds, Covenant

  Thomas Boston (1767). “A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...”, p.91

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• Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit of peace in the midst of competing interests and faith claims.

  James A. Forbes

  Compassion, Justice, Tolerance

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• When Christ entered into Jerusalem the people spread garments in the way: when He enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under Christ's feet but even trample upon it ourselves.

  Augustus Toplady

  Heart, Sunday, Feet

  Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.263

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• Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

  Kevin W. Pearson

  Spiritual, Choices, Enormous

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• I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

  John Grisham

  Confidence, Fear, Being Alone

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2016

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• The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than the individual who subjects himself to battle shorn of any protection but his own skill, his own belief in himself and in his wingman. Righteousness is necessary for one's peace of mind, perhaps, but it is a poor substitute for agility . . . and a resolution to meet the enemy under any conditions and against any odds.

  Robert S. Johnson

  Men, Odds, Skills

  Robert S. Johnson, Martin Caidin “Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace”, Lulu.com

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• You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Spiritual, Winning, Light

  "A Beacon in the Night". Interview with William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.

  Timothy Keller

  Christ

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• Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Father, Home

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• But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Attitude, Acceptance, Dark

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• How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?

  Sophie Scholl

  People, Giving, Doe

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• More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

  Glen Cook

  Names, Evil, Done

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.311, Macmillan

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• I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

  R. C. Sproul

  Atonement, My Own, Knows

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2018

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• Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.

  J. C. Ryle

  Self, People, Shapes

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• When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift.

  Jeff VanVonderen

  Tired, Realizing

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• I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.

  Sarah Miles

  Wine, Blood, Body

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• A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Justified, Christ, Sinner

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• Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Lonely, Walkers, Feels

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• As Paul argues, it is the righteousness of God that is revealed in the law, and this condemns us all (Ro 1:18 - 3:20), while the gospel reveals the righteousness from God, namely, that we "are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Ro 3:24).

  Michael Horton

  Jesus, Law, Grace

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• A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Doctors, Self, People

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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• For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.

  Horatius Bonar

  God, Faith, Jesus

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• We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.

  R. C. Sproul

  Faces, Christ, Mask

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2016

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• To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

  Ernest Holmes

  Believe, Law, Punishment

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.21, Penguin

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